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z/TPF Product Family

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Expand VFA Waitlist for DASD IO & Other types

TPFUG_Req_Number: S99011Contact Originator Id: John KucseraAbstract: The VFA Waitlist whould be expanded to include DASD IO and if possible, any other looping type IO for tapes, MPIF, SNA, etc. that the TPF USER might want to remove from the CPU L...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

MQ04018 MQSeries Provide support for requestor channels

TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ04018Contact Originator Id: rmansell@visa.comAbstract: Provide support for requestor channels.Description: Requestor channels are receiver channels that ask the remote sender channel to start. Environments with large number of ...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

MQ06002S MQ add support for Message Translation by the Queue Manager

TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ06002SContact Originator Id: mike.mansell@aexp.comAbstract: This MQ Series enhancement will add support for message translation by the Queue Manager when requested by the Get function with convert optionDescription: MQ series o...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

CC3 option for catastrophic after x mods down

TPFUG_Req_Number: S99015Contact Originator Id: John KucseraAbstract: Establish a SIPGEN option to take CPU down (cycle 1052 state and/or catastrophic) if "X" Mods are lost in "Y" timeframe.Description: This is a small change to CC3 processing. Hum...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Support of Jumbo Frames and MTU Discover For zTPF

My client wishes to convert from MTU = 1492 to MTU - 8992 aka Jumbo Frames. Need zTPF to support a TCPIP packet size of 9000 by allowing the zTPF MTU setting to be increased from 3480 to 8992. Also required is the enablement/support of MTU Discovery.
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Request for USER FIELD TWO in IDSXFC

Control Transfer Block (IDSXFC) currently contains a USER FIELD ONE (XFCUSER) that is defined as a fullword at displacement X'A8'. The next field is XFCEVNAM that is defined as a doubleword at displacement X'B0'. We are interested in utilizing the...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Enhance ZIDOT DISP Storage for Dump display

This enhancement is to provide: !) Easy dump size vislbility per keyword assigned to dump numbers via normal ZIDOT DISP Storage "dump name" entry 2) Provide potential total size of dump. Size could be Max and Min values depending on keywords (such...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Process tape queue in between dumps

In the case of excessive dumping, we would like to see a change where IBM will drain or process some of the tape queue in between each dump. IBM reviewed this request in the past, indicated that they agree with this need, and requested an RFE be o...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Preserve DBA and dumps when force deac is done

HP has various scenarios where there is a need to force deac a processor, and in those cases, we'd like to preserve the dumps. With streaming dumps, or a processor hang, as well as in the case of a catastrophic dump, it typically makes sense in ou...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

TPFAR DDM limit and version.

This includes two enhancements request for TPFAR. 1) Some programs have too many columns to insert/update to allow a run time bind. The maximum DDM commands for TPFAR is 100. A program doing an INSERT/UPDATE for up to 94 columns, with static bindi...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration